Christmas Toy Drive in Memory of Emily

23/12/2024

💚🎈🧸 E M I L Y ‘ S T O Y D R I V E 🧸🎈💚

This Christmas, with the help of our amazing community, we have delivered over 500 toys to the Queensland Children’s Hospital – enough to keep the toy cupboards stocked over Christmas.

If you would like to donate a gift to a sick child this Christmas, it’s not too late. Toys can be delivered to our family any time or dropped off to Emily’s Tree at Whisk & Grind Cafe in Eatons Hill (open on Christmas Eve, until 4pm).

🤍 Thank you for remembering Emily, and for helping us to bring comfort, joy, and healing to the children who need it most at Christmas.

20/12/2024

✨🌸🎄 Emily’s Tree 🎄🌸✨

🎁 We have just delivered over 500 Christmas toys to the Queensland Childrens Hospital!

🎁 Thank you to everyone who has visited Whisk & Grind Cafe and left a gift to honour Emily’s life and to keep her with us this Christmas. Your kindness is very much noticed and appreciated.

🎁 A special thank you to Jason and his team at Woolworths (Kallangur) for their huge haul of toys and their selfless generosity and support.

⏰ It’s not too late to donate! Whisk & Grind will be open every day until Christmas.

03/12/2024

🎈🎄🧸 C H R I S T M A S T O Y D R I V E 🧸🎄🎈

To honour Emily, and to keep her in our hearts, our family has engaged in a number of fundraising activities since her death. One such activity that brings us joy is organising a toy drive for the sick kids at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

Last year, with the help of Kim and her team at Whisk & Grind, we collected over 1500 toys – enough to keep the toy cupboards stocked for the entire year. Emily always loved receiving a toy from the toy cupboard after a round of chemo, or a painful or scary procedure.

This Christmas, we are again collecting toys for Emily's Christmas Drive. Toys can be delivered to our family, or dropped off to Emily's tree at Whisk & Grind Cafe in Eatons Hill.

✨ Here are some donation ideas! ✨

To keep sick kids safe and to comply with hospital policy, the QCH can only accept brand new items that have been recently purchased.

🟥 This means the hospital cannot accept second-hand toys, items that contain button batteries, items with sharp edges, food, or knitted blankets.

🟩 Picture books, colouring books, art and craft activities, fidget toys, stuffed toys, dolls, board games, card games, Lego, building blocks, and Play-Doh are all great ideas!

🙏 Thank you for remembering Emily, and for helping us to bring comfort, joy, and healing to children who need it most at Christmas.

27/10/2024

🧡🪀🧸 4 E M I L Y 🧸🪀🧡

This weekend, we restocked the toy cupboards at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, with the toys that were kindly donated to our annual Toy Drive in Memory of Emily.

It was incredibly difficult to return to the place where we felt such crushing despair and such rebellious hope.

It was my first time returning to the hospital since Emily died. Everything reminded me of her. The way she lived, and the way she died.

I was in awe of Mum, who ordered the woman on the front desk to fetch the trolley and buzz us up. She shows us we can do hard things. She volunteers at the hospital every Wednesday and cares for the sick kids and their siblings in the playroom. Just last week, she returned to BMT to play board games with a little girl not much older than Emily.

Unpacking the toys with Evie, and seeing so many things that Emily would have loved, was bittersweet.



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09/10/2024

So far, Emily's Team has raised $36,000 for childhood cancer research! 🎉🎉🎉

Until midnight tonight, all donations will be matched by corporate sponsors of the Great Cycle Challenge. This means:

🙏 if you donate $10, Team Emily will receive $20
🙏 if you donate $25, Team Emily will receive $50
🙏 if you donate $50, Team Emily will receive $100, etc etc etc!

Our goal is to raise $63,407—the highest amount ever raised in Australia.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, to those of you who continue to love and support us, and to those who always speak of Emily and continue to honour her, and remember her. Here's a photo of Emily's Mum and Dad, making us all so proud.



https://greatcyclechallenge.com.au/teams/EmilysTeam

02/10/2024

🩷🎗💜 R I D E 4 E M I L Y 🩷🎗💜

My daughter Emily was four years old when she was diagnosed with cancer. She fought bravely and courageously, with love, humour, and determination. We often joked that she was dancing while cancering, because even during chemo, she would stand up on her hospital bed and dance. She loved to watch TikTok and mimic various moves. She also loved to ride her bike around Oncology, often challenging the other kids to race.

This October I’ve set myself the goal of cycling 100kms for Emily and raising $1000 for research into better, safer, and more effective treatments for children's cancer. As you know, it wasn't cancer that took our beautiful daughter; it was the brutal, dangerous, and outdated treatment that she endured—treatment that is designed for adults rather than tiny growing bodies.

Please help me honour Emily, her fight, and her fighting spirit by supporting all kids with cancer. A life should be long. Every child should have the chance to grow up. Kids with cancer deserve more than a cure. Emily deserved a future.

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Emma Cantrell is riding in the Great Cycle Challenge. Please sponsor Emma now to end childhood cancer and save little lives. View Emma's fundraising page!

21/07/2024

🌲❄️Christmas in July❄️🌲

We did a double drop off this July including two handmade Elsa Frozen quilts from some talented donors.

We still have generous donations coming in from the Toy Outlet at Brendale❤️

Whisk & Grind Cafe thankyou again for your help raising so many donations!

17/06/2024

🎁Dropped off June's toy bundle last week🎁
Included in this bundle was a light up scooter with helmet, donated by a generous community member.

Emily's name was spoken many times that day, her story was shared and her memory was present.

15/04/2024

✨🎁 What’s in a monthly donation? 🎁✨

This is what’s inside the bag of goodies that we dropped off to the QCH this morning: aeroplanes, books, board games, dinosaurs, duplo, pens, paints, pop-its, fairy wings, dress-ups, stickers…

… and a lovely lady is now making Elsa quilts for our next donation to the Oncology ward! 💕❄️💕

15/03/2024

Relay for Life 2024

We are starting a team for Relay for Life in Memory of Emily.
https://www.relayforlife.org.au/fundraisers/EmilyBorg4699
Please consider joining our team or donating.

Relay for Life is an Event run by the Cancer Council to raise vital funds for cancer research.
On the day there are games and activities put on by the different teams and is suitable for the whole family.

Date: 5 October 2024
Time: 12pm-9pm
Location: University of Queensland, Athletics Oval

Emily Borg are taking strides towards a cancer free future. Donate to support their efforts at Brisbane 2024 Relay For Life.